The Nation: Reopening ITT

One of the Nixon Administration's earliest scandals is also turning out
to be one of its most persistent embarrassments. The affair centers on
the charge, flatly disputed by all officials involved, that the Justice
Department in 1971 settled an antitrust case against the International
Telephone and Telegraph Corp. on relatively favorable terms to the
company shortly after ITT had pledged up to $400,000 to support the
1972 Republican National Convention. Last week it was revealed that
President Nixon himself had personally and bluntly intervened in the
case.

At the time of Nixon's intercession, the Justice Department was
determined to carry an appeal...